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• The Renovation

  a Novel

  Orhan, Kenan, 1993-

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  A woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cell--where she is an unlikely inmate--in this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory, and migration. In his slender, disquieting first novel, Kenan Orhan tells a story of modern…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Palm House

  Riley, Gwendoline, 1979-

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  Laura Miller and Edmund Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, where they share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions, and lament the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• John of John

  a Novel

  Stuart, Douglas, 1976-

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  Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Them Dogs

  White, Djamel

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  Tony Ward is back in Dublin. After five years in England, where he fled after murdering a rival gang member, he returns to find that his mentor is dead and his best friend has gone straight. By turns savage, erotic, and unexpectedly tender, All Them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vivisectors

  a Novel

  Williams, Missouri, 1992-

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  A reclusive graduate student is forced into a friendship that destabilizes her life in this surreal, allegorical romance. Coursing with icy suspense and told with violent precision, The Vivisectors is a new kind of love story for an age of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Disappearers

  James, Marlon

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  From Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings a propulsive novel about the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its tragic consequences In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Helen of Nowhere

  Goodman, Makenna,

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  An electrifying novel about the delights and dangers of starting over. In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home's many wonderful qualities but about its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Switzy

  Cline, Emma

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  A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. Click. Click. Drag. Click. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar…Read moreRead more of this annotation